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Dead But Dreaming · Deicide

EXERCISE 12 OF 38
Groove G
61 / 91 BARS COVERED
0 / 38 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E, PART K
PART E
PART H
PART K
PART E
PART H
PART K
CHORUS
PART A
OUTRO 2
5 groovesLEKHAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 6
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dead But Dreaming on drums

91 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 2:37 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
91
LENGTH
2:37
DIFFICULTY
90/100

toms through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-14, ride through bars 15-16, hi-hat through bars 17-34, ride through bars 35-36 and hi-hat through bars 37-55, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 45-52 and 79-91 -- 23.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    45
    1.......2.......
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Dead But Dreaming -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8 and 15 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part E -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through Part E -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part E and Part H -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through Part H and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 17-48 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Dead But Dreaming?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Dead But Dreaming hard to play on drums?

90 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 75 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

91 bars, about 2:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Dead But Dreaming?

5 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 91 BARS ANALYSED